Waiting For Obama... in The Fields of Oz

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Waiting-For-Obama--in-Th-by-Rob-Kall-110517-609.html

After Obama was elected, many liberals, Democrats and progressives found themselves in the same situation as Dorothy, the lion, tinman and straw man when they wandered onto the poppy field of Oz, soporifically cursed by the wicked witch of the west, even with the gleaming Emerald City in plain sight.




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It's clear that the elections don't matter very much. The bills that WERE passed are now at risk of being overturned, sabotaged by weak or sell-out, fox-in-the-henhouse type appointees, or failure to fund.

We live in a time when it is a naive fantasy to believe that our elected officials are going to advocate for us or even be accountable to us. Even when a majority of us stand for a particular issue, WE don't provide the money that wins their campaigns. Corporations and PACs and the wealthy do. So our politicians lie to us and fail to protect and advocate for our interests.

That means WE have to assume the worst and not depend upon our legislators and certainly not Obama. WE have to find other means for getting our needs addressed, whether those needs include government spending priorities, social and environmental justice or pursuit of corporatist crimes and abuses.


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